Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Food and Environment
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2021) | Viewed by 3267
Special Issue Editor
Interests: computer networking; intelligent networks and e-services; precision agriculture and smart farming; remote sensing in farming systems; environmental information technologies
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Dear Colleagues,
So far, substantial progress has been made in research, development, and the use of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the Food and Environmental sciences. Innovative experiments are used as key instruments to mature ICTs, meeting end-user needs, to demonstrate agro-robotics solutions, increasing technology integration, as well as to test and improve the network quality and services. Further, recent satellite imagery advances combined with ground-based data and spatial mapping tools can make an enormous difference to agricultural decision making at global, national, and local levels, by providing more timely and accurate information, particularly for smallholder farming systems. Clearly, much potential is seen in real case applications in the combined fields of sensor networking, e-monitoring and decision making, precision agriculture and robotics in smart farming, machine learning techniques, image processing and identification, as well as remote sensing for land crop type mapping, and food security assessment.
The proposed Special Issue will leverage these promising developments to share the latest research but also real-life environments and large-scale developments, coming from the intersection of digital technologies with food and environmental sciences. Articles covering but not limited to recent research on the following topics are invited to this Special issue.
- long-range, low-energy, and low-cost sensor network technologies;
- precision Agriculture (PA) and UAV applications;
- robots in the agri-food sector;
- smart technologies and the environment;
- e-monitoring and decision-making IPM (Integrated Pest Management) applications;
- algorithms and applications on insect identification;
- machine learning applications in agriculture and food security;
- applications on crop yield mapping and monitoring;
- crop type/land mapping methods for smallholder farming systems.
Prof. Theodore A. Tsiligiridis
Guest Editor
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